Jack7
First Post
Usually, I get very little time to watch television or see films. But it being the holiday weekend I got the chance to see a few things I've been wanting to see for awhile now but didn't previously have the opportunity.
Watchmen - It wasn't nearly as bad as I suspected it might be. I even enjoyed it. Yes, it was comic-bookish and the plot was not particularly well developed in the film in comparison to the Graphic Novel but it was a well enough developed film in its own right. And yes the politics were silly, incredibly unrealistic, and comic bookish too, as is almost always the case with comic book materials, but given the source I thought it was a pretty good tale on the level of the individual character (especially as regards Manhattan and Adrian, whom I really thought I wouldn't like beforehand) and liked it for that. But for love of Red Skelton, I wish though that comic book writers and film-makers alike would stop already with the 5th grade juvenile American Empire/Dystopia/Utopia Hippie-squiggly/porky-piggly in first deep doe-eyed puppy love with the failed throwback Sixties (even in a series set in the Eighties they gotta go back to the Sixties, like the Seventies weren't bad enough or like the world first arose in that mostly stupid, backwards, febrile, misguided era) sea of moss green catfish crap they so often love to swim in. Man, what do most of them get their visions of the world and history from nothing more than other comic books? Even when they write anti-comic-book comic books (excuse me Graphic Novels) that's about the extent of their "prophetic visions" of the present and future.
That's the big joke? Rowan and Martin's Laugh-In set to guys who keep bringing knuckle busted kung-fu fists and face-masks to machine gun-fights? Yeah, I guess it's funny enough if you never bother to look behind the curtain. No wonder though they're still writing comic books about guys who still get into hand to hand fist fights as grown men yet somehow never get punch drunk, and about guys who get belted by lethal doses of radiation and yet still somehow magically turn into men who can bend iron and read minds. No wonder they fall for the things they fall for.
The Dresden Files - I gotta say, seeing as how the Dresden Files are about the most enjoyable modern fantasy books I read, and sometimes (though not always) not a bad set of Dick stories, I really enjoyed this first season. Yeah, things were changed around, sometimes significantly, and I could not imagine Dresden at all as he appeared and was sometimes portrayed in the series in comparison to the books, but the series was enjoyable enough in and of itself that I didn't really care. I thought the woman playing Murphy was a looker, and I thought the television series in and of itself was sufficiently good to stand alone. Without being a perfect representation of the books. (I'm not a fanboy of anything much anyways, I'd rather something be good than merely accurate, if that's the only two choices I got.) I can't understand why Sci-Fi (excuse me, Sy-Fy) dropped it in comparison to the load of swill they often put out on the airwaves on a regular basis. But then again I'm not a big network honcho making the really tough calls between the Dresden Files and Mega-Shark/Giant Octopus. Or whatever that thing was I saw being made fun of on The Soup. Maybe Battlestar Galactica drained the aluminum thinking cap the Execs share during developmental season of all their spare Cylon brain-juice. So they do what they can with what they got left to work with I reckon...
In any case I thought that the early episodes of Season One (and I suppose it never made it past season 2) reminded me a lot of Brimstone (which I always thought was too good for TV anyways - the first time I saw it at the recommendation of a buddy, he asked me what I thought of it, and I said, "it won't last long Scott, it's way too good for TV"). Which as I generally make it in my book is high praise for about any show. A little later it also began to remind me of the X-Files (also not bad as far as TV goes). It had just started to get its own legs when I guess they killed it. No good show goes untimely ripped from the womb of great potential I guess. Or something like that.
Carnivale - This thing, which I had never seen before (we don't got HBO, and I don't want it, but every now and again I hear tell they make something decent) was easy on my eyes. I like this kinda thing myself and to tell the truth I've ordered more of it. Gonna watch the whole first season eventually. The jacket said it was made in 2004. But the disc info said the second season was made in 2007. Odd to be sure, if that's true. But the thing was weird enough to have been scripted in one of my dreams. So I ain't exactly complaining. And if it stays as good as the first two episodes I saw (or gets even better) then to me that's all psychological honey pie. And everybody likes honey pie. Though she can drive you a little crazy every now and then.
Speaking of likeable, I also really liked the Tarot Card intro. Very original and stimulating.
I liked the attention to detail too. I'm looking forwards to more of this.
Well, that's how I been Mediarized lately.
It weren't exactly curing cancer mind ya, but it was enjoyable enough to kill a few spare off-hours.
Watchmen - It wasn't nearly as bad as I suspected it might be. I even enjoyed it. Yes, it was comic-bookish and the plot was not particularly well developed in the film in comparison to the Graphic Novel but it was a well enough developed film in its own right. And yes the politics were silly, incredibly unrealistic, and comic bookish too, as is almost always the case with comic book materials, but given the source I thought it was a pretty good tale on the level of the individual character (especially as regards Manhattan and Adrian, whom I really thought I wouldn't like beforehand) and liked it for that. But for love of Red Skelton, I wish though that comic book writers and film-makers alike would stop already with the 5th grade juvenile American Empire/Dystopia/Utopia Hippie-squiggly/porky-piggly in first deep doe-eyed puppy love with the failed throwback Sixties (even in a series set in the Eighties they gotta go back to the Sixties, like the Seventies weren't bad enough or like the world first arose in that mostly stupid, backwards, febrile, misguided era) sea of moss green catfish crap they so often love to swim in. Man, what do most of them get their visions of the world and history from nothing more than other comic books? Even when they write anti-comic-book comic books (excuse me Graphic Novels) that's about the extent of their "prophetic visions" of the present and future.
That's the big joke? Rowan and Martin's Laugh-In set to guys who keep bringing knuckle busted kung-fu fists and face-masks to machine gun-fights? Yeah, I guess it's funny enough if you never bother to look behind the curtain. No wonder though they're still writing comic books about guys who still get into hand to hand fist fights as grown men yet somehow never get punch drunk, and about guys who get belted by lethal doses of radiation and yet still somehow magically turn into men who can bend iron and read minds. No wonder they fall for the things they fall for.
The Dresden Files - I gotta say, seeing as how the Dresden Files are about the most enjoyable modern fantasy books I read, and sometimes (though not always) not a bad set of Dick stories, I really enjoyed this first season. Yeah, things were changed around, sometimes significantly, and I could not imagine Dresden at all as he appeared and was sometimes portrayed in the series in comparison to the books, but the series was enjoyable enough in and of itself that I didn't really care. I thought the woman playing Murphy was a looker, and I thought the television series in and of itself was sufficiently good to stand alone. Without being a perfect representation of the books. (I'm not a fanboy of anything much anyways, I'd rather something be good than merely accurate, if that's the only two choices I got.) I can't understand why Sci-Fi (excuse me, Sy-Fy) dropped it in comparison to the load of swill they often put out on the airwaves on a regular basis. But then again I'm not a big network honcho making the really tough calls between the Dresden Files and Mega-Shark/Giant Octopus. Or whatever that thing was I saw being made fun of on The Soup. Maybe Battlestar Galactica drained the aluminum thinking cap the Execs share during developmental season of all their spare Cylon brain-juice. So they do what they can with what they got left to work with I reckon...
In any case I thought that the early episodes of Season One (and I suppose it never made it past season 2) reminded me a lot of Brimstone (which I always thought was too good for TV anyways - the first time I saw it at the recommendation of a buddy, he asked me what I thought of it, and I said, "it won't last long Scott, it's way too good for TV"). Which as I generally make it in my book is high praise for about any show. A little later it also began to remind me of the X-Files (also not bad as far as TV goes). It had just started to get its own legs when I guess they killed it. No good show goes untimely ripped from the womb of great potential I guess. Or something like that.
Carnivale - This thing, which I had never seen before (we don't got HBO, and I don't want it, but every now and again I hear tell they make something decent) was easy on my eyes. I like this kinda thing myself and to tell the truth I've ordered more of it. Gonna watch the whole first season eventually. The jacket said it was made in 2004. But the disc info said the second season was made in 2007. Odd to be sure, if that's true. But the thing was weird enough to have been scripted in one of my dreams. So I ain't exactly complaining. And if it stays as good as the first two episodes I saw (or gets even better) then to me that's all psychological honey pie. And everybody likes honey pie. Though she can drive you a little crazy every now and then.
Speaking of likeable, I also really liked the Tarot Card intro. Very original and stimulating.
I liked the attention to detail too. I'm looking forwards to more of this.
Well, that's how I been Mediarized lately.
It weren't exactly curing cancer mind ya, but it was enjoyable enough to kill a few spare off-hours.
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